The Manjaro team has just released a new ISO pre-release of their linux distribution that includes the new Calamares installer. Quote: The new, Qt5/python3 based installer is a joint effort of several distributions. In May 2014, developers of Netrunnner, KaOS and Manjaro got together to discuss the possibility to work jointly on a brand new,… [Read More]

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Getting a Clojure environment up and running on any Arch Linux based system (like Manjaro) is easy as pie! Everything is in either the official repo’s or the AUR — and up to date, unlike the old-ass shit you’re likely to find in most distros. Haskell is a bit more tedius, and I’ve switched to… [Read More]

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Let’s be honest, other than Ubuntu, most linux distributions have horrible looking font rendering out of the box. I’m a writer. I use my computer to write for between 3 to 8 hours per day. Bad font rendering is a deal-breaker for me in a distribution. That said, I’ve found that fond rendering is super-easy… [Read More]

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There I was typing away like a boss on an article using the rather nice StackEdit.io markdown editor in a window in Chrome… and then I couldn’t type. Nothing worked, not even typing in the URL address bar. I thought it was the editor, or their site. Nope. I tried refreshing the page. Nope. I… [Read More]

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I updated my “How to Install the Haskell Platform on Arch Linux” post. I’ve found two things recently that you may like to know if you’re a haskell-ite: Haddock isn’t in the Haskell-Core repos anymore, so you need to build from Cabal (unless I’m missing something…) I’m preferring to build Pandoc with Cabal Install, as… [Read More]

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The new linux 3.15 nearly melted my laptop today. Not quite ready for prime time, LOL. Still… I love that with Manjaro, kernel-swapping is this easy. This one is too hot? I just reboot, and switch back to 3.14 in my grub menu! One of my favourite features of the Majaro Linux distribution is that… [Read More]

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On Fedora, the yum ‘groupinstall’ option is just awesome. With it, you can install an entire collections of related software packages (and their dependencies) in one swoop. Among these are groups for a Webserver, Development Tools, Authoring and Publishing, Engineering and Scientific tools, even Robotics! Let’s use the “Webserver” group as our example here. For… [Read More]

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When I was in grad school — many moons ago — I was introduced to a fantastic platform for mathematics computation called Sage being developed at the University of Washington. You can think of Sage as a combination of Mathematica, Matlab, and a bit of R — only open source, free, and backed by the… [Read More]

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I keep forgetting where to find this whenever I install a new Linux distro with KDE as the desktop environment. Some distrobutions — like Linux Mint — come prepackaged with a nice touchpad management section under their settings panel (input devices). But, others — like Manjaro — don’t. The package you’re looking for is called… [Read More]

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A fellow coach that I know writes online exclusively in ALL CAPS — literally. He’s a cool guy, knows his stuff, and is NOT always yelling in real life. But, for some reason, his capslock key was permanently pressed down at some point in the past … and has never risen again. In case you… [Read More]